[Xymon] Services false positive

[Steve Holmes]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:18 AM, MatthewHarris at air-watch.com <
MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> wrote:

>  Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few
> hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different
> purposes are trying to report the same services.  For instance,
> XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for
>  XXXXXXXXXXX48.  Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look
> at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?*
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Are the servers in question Solaris zones on the same global zone? If so,
many of the checks will be duplicated. This may also happen with other
virtual environments, but I've only seen it for Solaris zones. In
particular our ESX environment does not have this problem.

Steve

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